From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 116050 invoked by alias); 13 Apr 2016 14:59:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 114678 invoked by uid 89); 13 Apr 2016 14:59:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:59:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65401116956; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 5jE3DOAc7v7q; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DC7B116954; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:59:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CB79A4976A; Wed, 13 Apr 2016 07:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:59:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Marc Khouzam Cc: Pedro Alves , Yao Qi , "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: C++ conversion status update Message-ID: <20160413145922.GJ31406@adacore.com> References: <565460FB.6070103@redhat.com> <86zixdnlfg.fsf@gmail.com> <566F13D4.9000900@redhat.com> <570D91F6.2020702@redhat.com> <20160413124127.GG31406@adacore.com> <570E51CB.6010304@redhat.com> <20160413141648.GI31406@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00016.txt.bz2 > I'm not sure if this was ever brought up before, but version numbers > don't have much meaning to users. What is GDB 7.5? Is that an old > version? Is that the latest? > Using a date scheme would be better, a la Ubuntu. When a user > see 16.04 they know they have the latest-and-greatest. > > http://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-in-a-version-number-anyway/ I had the same thought. In fact, AdaCore is moving in that direction as well. -- Joel